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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

In this podcast, we cover a great deal of ground, including: Early challenges Dr. Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. But when I retired from government service, I left Kalakkad in 2002. Somehow we were not very limited by definitions. No, they are.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

Jasmine: It’s an imaginative love story that deconstructs age through an intergenerational friend relationship. There have been multiple subsequent government reports on nursing home care, most recently was about eight, nine years ago from the OIG. So I am requesting The Sifters by Andrew Bird. Eric: Can I ask why?

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding.

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When do we learn to treat our doctors properly?

Tiny Physician

A doctor-patient relationship is mandatory in the case and this can be proven by cross-checking the duty list or from the patient’s case sheet. Direct causation There has to be a direct relationship between the damage and the breach of duty. treatment at government hospitals when they or their relatives get admitted.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care. How much of your training was focused on managing substance use disorder training and palliative care? Naheed 15:53 Yeah, yeah.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

I initially got into it because I was really looking at the psychophysiology of stress, and so how stress affects our health and how relationships were always a component of that. But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress. Eric: I realize we’re almost out of time.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). Panelists Bill Gardner, Sonu Gaind, Leonie Herx have stated they have no relationships to disclose. And so now for March, 2024, the government still has said they’re planning to expand it for mental illness conditions.

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